I think Tex was also the brain trust behind coaches wearing head sets, instant replay, the striping on the goal posts to indicate where the wind is blowing, and I want to say he's the reason the officials wear microphones.
It's like the Irvin Rule, it already existed but wasn't being enforced, mainly because Martin and Irvin were the first to openly do it since it had become a rule. I was amazed that Irvin got by with some of those push offs and I wonder what Dez Bryant could have done with the same leeway they allowed Irvin for so long.
Good point. And one of the main reasons JJ is in the HOF for his “innovation” and “contributions to game”. Sadly, he has not contributed much to the on-field success of the team since the mid 90s.
Good one. Although wasn’t that an invention of Bob Ackles? I could be wrong.
Don't know. But Jimmy made it famous. I never heard anything of the draft value chart until Johnson made it popular. Now EVERY TEAM uses it.
Irvin did kind of bully DB's. I was amazed he got away with it too.
Michael Irvin was the most effective “push off artist” in NFL history, lol. He made an art of it, especially with DBs that tried to jam him. He wasn’t that fast, but he was one of the best at being physical to get open.
Especially since teams sent film to the league office of him doing it and he'd still get by with it. I don't blame him for doing it, those battles between receivers and DB's are great and both sides will use anything they can as long as they can. Remember those battles between Rison and Sanders? And Sanders got by with the mugging of the decade in that playoff game in SF and even admits it. And here I didn't think he liked contact. Oh, that's contact after the play.
You use what you've got and he was a big strong WR. I'd never seen him out of uniform until I attended the training camp in Austin and met him on the sideline with him in shorts and a t shirt. Easy to lose perspective of the size of those guys watching them on TV or even in the stadium. He was a cut piece of granite.
Tom Landry.....
The challenge with his D was that it was counter instinctive and players had been playing by those instincts ever since they got into football.
Explain that ...
Few realize for most of Landry’s storied career as a HC, he was both the offensive AND defensive coordinator. He prepared game plans for both sides of the ball for years.
